Hi, What's the best software for imaging a 160GB disk with a dead/dying head, and lots and lots of bad sectors? (about a quarter dead, in long bursts)

Everything I've tried takes a long time to try every single bad sector, so the imaging takes forever (it will take well over a week, easily). MHDD with it's scan uses Sector Verify to get a quicker test but it looks like the ATOF imaging command doesn't use that before it tries to copy

What can I use to copy good sectors but ignore long runs of bad sectors as quickly as possible?

Thanks for any advice

Paul

try copyr.DMA

copyr.DMA not support to 160Gb

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DeepSpar Disk Imager, totally brilliant for this, I've often got 99.9% images from dying drives with it, but it's expensive!.

Sean

For drives with bad or unstable heads you need copy program which could create head-by-head map for copying

you should skip bad head because drive can hang during the access at the head

There are two utilities for this kind of copy - AceLab PC3000+DataExtractor or HRT professional version

I use a Logicube Sonix

http://www.logicube.com/

I've found it way, way better than any windows- or linux-based cloning utility.

logicube can't handle bad head, it is good for good hdd cloning.

Check out this topic: http://forum.hddguru.com/cloning-equipm ... t6529.html